Photographing the Afterlife of Slavery
In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Vanessa Charlot about her new
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Visual Culture
The History of African American Visual Culture
If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an
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Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton’
Since its release on Christmas Day, Bridgerton has attracted international attention for its racial cosmopolitan reenactment of early nineteenth-century Britain.
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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,
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Introducing the New Black Surrealisms Series
New Black Surrealisms, guest edited by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome P. Dent, Jr., extends recent interventions in Black media
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